Mall security growing more vigilant against terrorism
November 29, 2004
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In a suburban mall outside Hartford, past the Abercrombie & Fitch and the cell phone kiosks, tucked away by the Barnes & Noble, a conference room full of shopping mall security guards are learning to spot suicide bombers.
They’re being taught blast patterns and behavior profiles, how a bomb is packaged and how a bomber is recruited.
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Al-Zawahiri Vows to Keep Fighting U.S.
November 29, 2004
Top Usama bin Laden lieutenant Ayman Al-Zawahiri vowed in a videotape shown Monday to continue fighting the United States until President Bush changes U.S. policies.
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Terror expert: Qaida WMD attack on US likely soon
November 28, 2004
An al-Qaida attack on the US with non-conventional weapons is virtually “inevitable,” and the organization is likely “tying up the knots” for such an attack, Yosef Bodansky, former director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
“All of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike something more horrible than anything we’ve seen before is all but inevitable,” he said.
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US general calls for bolder action to stop Islamic extremists
November 28, 2004
A top US general called on Friday for bolder international action to stop the spread of Islamic extremism, suggesting curbs were needed to prevent the Internet and other media from being used by groups like Al Qaeda.
Why is it that people have the right to get on the Internet and spread this hatred and insanity without there being some curb, some law,said General John Abizaid, the chief of the US Central Command.
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CIA warns ‘dirty bomb’ within Al-Qaeda’s capabilities
November 25, 2004
The Al-Qaeda terror network is fully capable of building a radioactive “dirty bomb” targeting the United States and other Western nations and “has crude procedures” for producing chemical weapons, the CIA warned.
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Mexican Mob Burns Plainclothes Anti-Terrorism Agents Alive
November 24, 2004
A mob angry about recent child abductions cornered plainclothes federal agents taking photos of students at a school and burned the officers alive, mistaking the agents for kidnappers in the latest example of vigilante justice in a country beset by high crime.
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Security services foil 9/11 attack in UK
November 22, 2004
Britain’s security services thwarted a September 11-style attack on targets including Canary Wharf and Heathrow Airport, according to reports.
The plot is said to have involved pilots being trained to fly into target buildings including London’s famous financial centre and the world’s busiest airport.
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Biological attacks ‘next terror step’
November 22, 2004
Suicide bombings would give way to chemical and biological warfare in the next generation of terror attacks, a terrorist expert told an emergency medicine conference in Adelaide today.
“Terrorist groups were using chemical and biological agents in their training and it was just a matter of time before they used them for war,” Dr Rohan Gunaratna, the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Singapore’s Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, said.
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Agent says terrorists will hit again
November 21, 2004
The Phoenix FBI agent who warned that Osama bin Laden was using flight schools to train terrorists two months before the Sept. 11 attacks said Saturday that “they are going to try and hit us again.”
In his first interview since his now famous memo was written, Ken Williams told The Arizona Republic that Americans must reclaim the sense of unity and purpose that gripped the nation three years ago to thwart the next terrorist attack.
“We are in a war with people who really want to hurt us,” he said Saturday. “In my opinion, it is not over.”
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D.C.-bound passenger on no-fly list
November 21, 2004
US Customs officials have detained two passengers from an Air France flight bound for Dulles International Airport near Washington.
Transportation Security Administration officials say the plane was diverted to Bangor, Maine because they discovered that one of the passengers is on the U-S no-fly list. The plane eventually flew on to Dulles - arriving more than two hours late.
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